Democrats favor lawsuits against anti-terrorist tipsters To this day, there are competing theories as to what the "flying imams" were really up to when they boarded US Airways Flight 300, bound from Minneapolis to Phoenix last November. The Muslim clerics -- including a Jordanian-born activist from Tucson, Ariz., named Omar Shahin -- performed their religious observances quite loudly and publicly before boarding the plane. All quite legal and constitutionally protected, of course -- but also well-designed to draw attention to themselves. Once aboard the plane in Minneapolis, several of the Muslim "scholars" switched from their assigned seats to a pattern...